Dirigible headlight



W.. W. KE'NNAYRD.

DIRI'GIBLE HEADUGHT- APPLICATION FILED MAY 1.4., 19.18.

Patented May 4, 1920.

2 SHEETSSHEET 2- worm m portion of said standard for an. obvious purpose. A screw threaded opening is formed in the cap member 18 and receives the complementally screw threaded upper end of the hollow portion of the shaft 3 therein as indicated in Fig. 1 whereby rotary motion can be transmitted thereto for moving the headlight 21 which, as will be noted, is pivotally supported in suitable bearings 22 carried by the cap member 18 in a horizontal mounted on a portion of the trainee, which lever aswill be noted in turn pivotally I connected to a link 27 having connection with a second bell, crank lever 28, this bell crank lever being connected with the lower end of an operating rod 29 extending upwardly along the hollow steering column 30 of the vehicle and having a rack 31"formed on. its upper'end and engaged by a segpose].

mental gear 32 rotatably mounted in a suitable form of housing33 secured to said steering column 30 and provided with an operating handle 34 for an obvious pur- In this connection, I desire to have it understood that the housing 33 can be provided'with a peripherally disposed slot having seats or notches formed in one side thereof to receive the handle 34' in order that the segmental gear 32 can. be locked in an adjusted position to prevent further movement of the rod '29 and consequently the rack 31.

Pivotally connected links 35 and 36 are provided, the-free end of the link 35 being slotted and pivotally. connected to the bracket element 6 while the free end of the link 36 is pivoted to a suitable bracket carried on the adjacent portion of the headlight 2].. To normally maintain the secondary shaft t in itslowermost position, a contractile, coil. spring 37 is engaged at one end with one extremity of the bell crank lever 26 and at its other end with the frame 0.

In operation, it will be readily understood that upon movement of the steering gear 11, the shafts 3 and 4: and consequently the headlight 21 carried thereby will be caused to rotate and thus, the headlight is moved in a horizontal plane in order that the light rays emitted thereby will be projected into the direction in which the wheels of the vehicle are turned. Should it now be desired to vary the distance of the light rays from the headlight 21, the handle 34 is rocked, thus causing the segmental gears 23 to be correspondingly. rocked and consequently imparting movement to the secondary shaft elby reason of its connection with the rack element 5 formed thereon. Since said shaft 4-. has connection with the headlight 21, the same will of course be moved in a vertical plane and thus will. be adjusted'to the desired position. In this way, it is obvious that the glare from the headlight can be lessened or entirely eliminated, or if desired, the light rays can be projected for a consid erable distance therebey'ond. It is to be also noted, that the headlight can be previously adjusted 'to effect the desired projection of light rays therefrom thus avoiding the blinding of pedestriansor drivers of other vehicles upon the turning of the vehicle provided therewith. V

I Manifestly, the construction shown is capable of considerable modification and such modification as is within the scope of my claim, I consider within the spirit of my invention.

I claim:

A movable headlight of the character described comprising a tubular standard, 'a cap for said standard having a screwithreaded opening formed therein and movable with respect to said standard, a rotatably mounted tubular shaft in said standard and connected with said cap, a headlight device connected with said cap, means for mount ing said headlight device to swing vertically relative to said tubular shaft; a rod carriedwithin and movable vertically with respect to said shaft. an encircling gear rack on said rod, amanually operable gear segment carried by said. standard and engaging said gear rack foriinparting vertical movement to said rod and means connectingsaid rod with the headlight device for moving the same on its transverse axis.

In testimony whereof I aflix ture hereto.

WILLIAM w. KENNARD.

my signa- 1 

